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$15.00
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Battling the Land


200 Years of Rural Australia

LINN, ROB

Softcover super octavo (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Rob Linn Australia history natural history rural Australia

$15.00
xxkui70256

Heartland: New Zealand's Meeting Places


ROBINSON, STEPHEN

softcover imperial square octavo (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Robinson new zealand pictorial history photographic history illustrated

$40.00
1g76/26

New Zealand, or Zealandia, The Britain of the South: Volume 1


With Two Maps and Seven Coloured Views (Missing)

HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES

First edition, volume 1 only, octavo, blue cloth boards with blind-stamped decorative rule to boards & gilt motif to centre front board, xvi + 328pp, G (lacks spine, lacks fep, front board only attached by one stitch, fading & chaffing to boards, fraying & bruising to board corners, some tape repair to board/spine folds, tape reinforcement to hinge at centre (pg 192/193), browning to page edges, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford 1857

KEYWORDS: Charles Hursthouse New Zealand history geology scenery climate natural history flora fauna minerals Maori government agriculture immigration

$675.00
ak3/22/3954

Books on Egypt and Chaldaea Volumes 9 - 17 (IX - XVII): A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII BC30


Eight volume set with large coloured folding map at rear of vol 1 (Vol IX)

BUDGE, E. A. WALLIS

Eight-volume set, octavo, browny-orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board & black decorative rule to front board, xxiv + 222 + large folding map (vol.1), xvi + 207pp (vol.2), xvi + 219pp (vol.3), xvi + 241pp (vol.4), xvi + 219pp (vol.5), xxxiv + 230pp (vol.6), xvi + 251pp (vol.7), xvi + 321pp (vol.8), all vols illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, several fading spots to spines, tanning to eps, v occasional page corners creased, moderate wear to spine of vol 1, light fraying and moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench et al 1902

KEYWORDS: classics ancient history Egypt Chaldaea ancient Egyptian history EA Wallis Budge

$9.50
xxkwk73451

Sweet Thunder


CROKER, RICHARD

softcover rectangle saddle-stapled octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Lodestar Press

KEYWORDS: specials trains steam travel railway history richard croker history photography

$50.00
1e1a/6

Steel Roads of Australia


TAYLOR, COLIN & CHURCHMAN, GEOFFREY (Illus)

Quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 145pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light foxing to inside)

PUBLISHER: IPL Books 1991

KEYWORDS: Australia transport railways trains steam engines history Colin Taylor Geoffrey Churchman pictorial photographic history

$16.50
xxfgj79664

Why I Survived the A-Bomb


KOHCHI, AKIRA

hardcover super octavo (fine) in d/w (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Institute for Historical Review 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Akira Kohchi atom bomb chemica warfare history hiroshima history memoir

$22.50
xxfgi79593

A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo 1755-1870


HINOJOSA, GILBERTO MIGUEL

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Texas A&M University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: specials Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa USA Laredo Texas Mexican American Mexico history economics social history

$12.00
xxfhf80057

The First Great Civilizations


HAWKES, JACQUETTA

paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pelican 1977

KEYWORDS: specials history mesopotamia indus valley egypt jacquetta hawkes history

$30.00
2b30a/59

The Lyalldale Waltz: A Light-hearted Look at Rural Life about South Canterbury over the past Seventy Years


THOMPSON, ISAAC M.

Lacks fep, inscribed, signed & dated by author, octavo, maroon boadrs with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, iv + 219pp, illus, VG (some fading to spine extrems, owner's name & address twice to half title verso, some tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (heavy staining, 2cm tatty portion of loss to upper spine extrem, tatty tears with loss to lower spine, creasing to all edges, nicks to all corners)

PUBLISHER: Isaac Thompson 1975

KEYWORDS: Isaac M Thompson New Zealand Canterbury Kopje Pareora Estate history farming local history

$12.00
xxfke81974

Ned Kelly: Man and Myth


CAVE, COLIN (ed)

One section celotaped into book, octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Cassell Australia 1980

KEYWORDS: specials colin cave ned kelly australia history criminal history

$22.50
xxkhh84237

Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand. Together with a Description of the Present State of the Company's Settlements


HEAPHY, CHARLES

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1972

KEYWORDS: specials Charles Heaphy New Zealand artisit travel autobiography memoir natural history politics history

$12.00
xxsbo87365

The Epic of Flight: The Carrier War


REYNOLDS, CLARK G.

Quarto hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Time Life Books 1983

KEYWORDS: specials Clark G Reynolds Time-Life books military history Second World War Two naval airforce history

$25.00
xxsch88297

Dance of the Peacocks: New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung


MCNEISH, JAMES

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Vintage 2004

KEYWORDS: specials James McNeish New Zealand James Bertram Geoffrey Cox Dan Davin Ian Milner John Mulgan biography biographies memoirs letters diaries interviews history Hitler Mao Tse-Tung war military history Rhodes scholars

$16.50
xxscs89294

Mao Zedong's Art of War


JIKUN, LIU

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Hai Feng 1993

KEYWORDS: specials liu jikun china history miltary war history

$26.50
xxheaa89371

The South of the North: Manawatu and Its Neighbours


SAUNDERS, B. G. R. (ed.)

softcover quarto, (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Massey University 2000

KEYWORDS: specials B G R Saunders new zealand local history manawatu pictorial history

$15.00
xxsct89517

Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa


MAIN, WILLIAM

hardcover oblong quarto (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Millwood 1974

KEYWORDS: specials William Main new zealand illus history wellington wairarapa pictorial history photography

$14.50
xxsdq91438

The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind


COX, IAN (ed)

Quarto hardcover (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Shell Transport and Trading 1957

KEYWORDS: specials Ian Cox art history science natural history

$160.00
1b27a/31

Continental Circus, 1949 - 2000


BULA, MAURICE (Photos) & SCHERTENLEIB, JEAN-CLAUDE

Text in English German and French, folio, illus black heavy card boards, 588pp, illus, VG+ (owner's address abel to f.e.p., v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Chronosports S.A. 2001

KEYWORDS: Maurice Bula Jean-Claude Schertenleib motorbikes motorcycle racing history statistics history Text in English French German

$90.00
1b27a/39

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in all TImes and Countries, especially in England and in France, in Two Volumes


STEINMETZ, ANDREW

Two-volume set, scarce, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines & blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, coated eps, xi + 436pp (vol.1), 444pp (vol.2), VG- (6cm portion of vol 2 lower spine missing, rear board vol.1 detached, heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems & boards corners, browning to spines, staining to boards, bookseller's labels to front pastedowns, owner's ex libris labels to frotn pastedowns, heavy browning to page edges, hinges cracked, pencil drawing to last page vol.1, sporadic light foxing, slight damage to v. occasional page edges)

PUBLISHER: Tinsely Brother 1870

KEYWORDS: Andrew Steinmetz gambling history gaming tables history ancient Rome Egypt Europe lotteries entertainment

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